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- PhanLo1
It's a free market bro
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- The heavy metals in baby food occur naturally in human breast milk and lots of foods in high levels but NOT dangerous levels.Morning_star
- https://health.cleve…Morning_star
- It's not a free market if there's a federal limit regulating heavy metal levels. It's government regulation.palimpsest
- Are you complaining that it's not a free market, bro?palimpsest
- There should be more heavy metal in babyfood, exactly.PhanLo
- That still regulation. If your want a free market Co.s should decide how much heavy metal to put in. It would be up to the consumer to pick the best product.palimpsest
- That's what a true liberal would be for.palimpsest
- Companies do decide how much metal to put in. Just enough that babies don't get brain damage.PhanLo
- That tweet says government regulates the amount though. Are we even talking about the same thing?palimpsest
- https://en.wikipedia…
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@palimpsest learn the difference.sted - It also says there's a congressional investigation. And your comment is "It's a free market bro" ?!
*shrugspalimpsest - There's the government regulations and there's what the company can get away with. Like our parents talking about lead in sweets, it's fun times.PhanLo
- @sted
Horseshoe theory. Everybody to the right of where I stand looks the same to me.
; )palimpsest - And, yes, I am aware that's not what horseshoe theory is.palimpsest
- Why are they putting Metalica in baby food?Chimp
- in my experience it’s liberals who are into regulation and safetymonospaced
- The misunderstood ‘heavy metals’ argument is also the same anti-vaxxers use. TBH I do like a bit of Slayer in my vaccines.Morning_star
- Years someone pumped machine gun bullets into the bodies of children and no one did anything. You think they give a shit about baby food????futurefood
- Free heavy metals for all children under 5utopian
- Unfortunately it’s not just baby food. Rice, carrots, sweet potato. We are fucked.ben_
- Some plants accumulate certain metals, including arsenic (ok, a semi-metal) naturally. Rice particularly because of concentrates in paddy fields.Nairn
- drgs0
Jeff Bezos Opens Homeless Shelter for Amazon Employees
https://www.thenordly.com/nordly…Can you call it employee benefits?
- mort_-1
- Scientists would create banana stickers that the other monkeys could trade. 1 banana sticker would be equal to 40k bananas.palimpsest
- Everyone wins!palimpsest
- If 1 monkey is able to hoard all the bananas while the other monkeys are sitting on their ass starving doesn't that monkey deserve to be on the cover of Forbes?palimpsest
- In this analogy, other monkeys would need to glorify the banana-rich monkey.********
- And shouldn't scientists be asking themselves why are these idiot monkeys eating bananas in the first place?palimpsest
- Why aren't the starving monkeys using the resources available to them? What kind of environment are they living in?palimpsest
- Why focus all the research resources on that one idiot monkey hoarding the bananas instead of actually solving the problem of starving monkeys?palimpsest
- The focus on the accumulation of "wealth" rather having basic needs covered is what is wrong with this capitalist based science.palimpsest
- The reality of this particularly idiotic analogy is that they monkeys with no bananas would get together and tear the banana hoarder to fucking peices. Because.Morning_star
- ..they're fucking animals and have no law, commerce, healthcare, roads, schools, hospitals, military etc etc.Morning_star
- My job here is done.
￣|○palimpsest - I think you'll find the monkey that hoards all the banana's can't eat all the banana's as they rot and ferment. So he too dies. And the monkeys go extinct.shapesalad
- Nathalie, that's a bad comparison. You should've made this example: What if Nestlé or an other corp was privatizing drinking water and hoarded it all.NBQ00
- ...while most humans had no access to drinking water and had to buy it from Nestlé & co.NBQ00
- @Morning, that doesn't happen. Primates have strong social communities, with hierarchies and such, complete with respect and kinship.monospaced
- @mono You are joking aren't you. https://www.newscien…Morning_star
- @mono. They murder for fun. They have gangs that bully and rape. Not all species but primates have a very, very dark side.Morning_star
- "Some primatologists believe that up to 90% of male chimpanzees participate in murder at some point in their lives" https://youtu.be/ZT9…Morning_star
- It also turns out monkeys don't actually eat bananas, we've all been lied to.
https://www.business…yuekit - The article says this is rare. And that it underpins a complex social system.monospaced
- Literally one of nine known cases.monospaced
- “... tension between conflict and cooperation, which is central to the lives of chimpanzees and even to our own.” Yes. REALLY.monospaced
- Sounds like you really have it out for primates man. Especially non human ones. I actually don’t think we’re all as different as you do. Neither do experts.monospaced
- @mono I don’t think we’re different at all. The tweets claims that animals, particularly primates aren’t blessed with a selfish, violent anti-social side. You..Morning_star
- ...also claimed that they aren’t violent and murderous. They are. In the same way murder, rape and violence is rare in human society, it still occurs.Morning_star
- I only said that violence doesn't define them. Got the impression you were saying they are moralless savages who all murder all the time. That isn't true.monospaced
- ********3
https://www.bbc.com/worklife/art…
Here’s the problem with mort’s post.
Monkeys do, in fact, display behaviors that reflect capitalism. None of the scientists think of this behavior has immoral or “wrong.” None of the monkeys do, either (as far as we know.) It is considered natural.
It is only humans that look at the behavior of other humans and then choose to either celebrate that man on the cover of Forbes, or to judge the whole thing to be immoral or “wrong.”
But is it not nature?
I would argue that it’s rather unscientific to cast judgements upon the morality of the humans or the monkeys. That sounds more like the church’s domain, to me.
The scientists don’t judge the monkeys. However, I’m not arguing that the monkeys’ behavior justifies the human behavior. I’m saying that it is only humans who judge other humans.
It’s the exact opposite of what mort’s retweet is arguing.
- mort's post does not understand science nor capitalism.palimpsest
- Was a silly analogy, I concur.mort_
- Yeah you're right, there's nothing unnatural about exploitation, nor genocide.Khurram
- Hence, nothing "immoral" either.Khurram
- Let's put all genocidal monkeys on the cover of Forbes!Khurram
- These monkeys should be venerated as the epitome of our civilization!!! :D :D :DKhurram
- If monkeys were capable of printing magazines, you're damn right they would put the #1 genocidal monkey warlord on the cover. And not some loser monkey.yuekit
- Inherent capitalism is a fact, but there is nothing to celebrate here, it must be taken as a tragedy, like monkey infant cannibalism. Monkey nature must be overdrgs
- overcomedrgs
- Hold on, now. I said the monkey behavior does NOT justify the human behavior. Monkeys are just stupid animals and people should do better!********
- You're a pretty stupid animal yourself nb, I have to be honest.Khurram
- NBQ005
- this is why we need smart people in government, to help make solutions to things like this. And there are a lot of smart people with ideas for things like thisdkoblesky
- https://www.youtube.…GuyFawkes
- would you sign a contract for 10 years?sted
- Credit is a ma' fucka', eh?ideaist
- To be fair the banks don’t want to take any big risks right now. If you can’t get approved for a loan that small you are doing something wrong.monospaced
- New stats say that to buy an average house you would have to earn 35k Swiss Francs per month. Guess I'll keep renting then.Longcopylover
- You don't make 35k swiss francs per month. What?NBQ00
- I know, I'm a working poor I guess.Longcopylover
- $1400 a month gets you a pretty nice apt. in this town. $950 gets you a shitty house unless you put +50% down on a house.fooler
- Something tells me Kat shouldn't be buying a house right nowFNP14
- ^ hahaGnash
- Rent should only be for folks looking for a short term commitment, which should equate to costing a more than a long term commitment.aliastime
- National cultures are different, aliastime - in Europe, renting is much more common and accepted. In Britain and the US, less so.Nairn
- NBQ001
7 year old Russian YouTuber Anastasia Radzinskaya has a net worth of about $83 Million that she (well, of course with the help of her parents) earned with her channel “Like Nastya” and other channels for kids.
Is it too late for us 30-40 year olds to start a kids YT channel?
- _niko7
Yanis Varoufakis: Capitalism has become 'techno-feudalism'
- but...but...utopian
- Continuity on TV again.NBQ00
- Lol @NBQ!!!OBBTKN
- :)Continuity
- grafician1
"9 billionaires gained $360 billion in the pandemic
Bezos: donated 0.3% of pandemic gains to charity
Musk: gave 0.004%
Zuckerberg: gave 0.4%
Gates: gave 7%
Brin (Google): gave 0.3%
Page (Google), Ellison, Ballmer, Dell: 0 known donations"
- shapesalad2
"The critical factor behind this is the same thing which plagues nearly every part of any modernized society: usury. Once one understands the modern monetary system (specifically the critical role of debt in it) then so many things about the economy and human action make clear sense. Debt is the key driver behind the downfalls of many a great civilization and it continues to destroy silently and secretly from within any society it ensnares.
I recommend any youtube talk about debt / monetary system by Michael Hudson or Richard Werner. If you cannot come to terms with how debt totally dominates and distorts society you will forever be baffled by all of the oddities of modern life. Its effects transcend cultural boundaries, ruining diverse peoples all the same.
Were consumer debt to banned then housing, auto, education would all need to be priced such as to be affordable now with salaries earned in the present, rather than front-loading 30 years of future labor into a purchase made in the here and now. As it is today people are locked into debt serfdom to financial oligarchs whom create debt out of thin air (yes, mortgage loans and consumer debt are conjured out of literally nothing - it is not savings of person A being lent out to person B, but rather brand new money created from nowhere which exists as a mere accounting entry on a bank balance sheet). If you do the simple mortgage math a 30-year mortgage at current interest rates leads to about half of your payments going to the financial oligarchs as interest - interest they charge on money they created out of thin air at zero effort. In effect they lay claim on half of the labor you worked over a 30-year period just becuase they have the oligarchic privlege to create money out of thin air. Had you the privilege to create money out of nothing you could live high on the hog as well.
It is no mystery why things are getting worse worldwide despite all the propaganda obfuscation which claims otherwise.
No consumer debt, prices will plummet and be affordable to purchases made with savings earned with present incomes. That price differential is the savings not transferred off to the oligarchs.
With all of that production being returned to the worker rather than being transferred to the financial oligarch, who knows how much more abundant families would be. Families wouldn't live in debt serfdom, their labor would remain theirs to support larger families, and the regular people of the world would prosper, rather than the financial oligarchs as the modern system currently does.
Specific to the question of declining birth rates, another major factor is the modern devolution of having both parents leave the home in order to support a family. For thousands of years up until the modern age of the past century, both parents worked within the vicinity of their home. Think farmers, or European peasants tending their crops, or a shopkeeper who lives above his shop, or the such. But the modern age brought about a devolution in which people need travel tens of miles for an hour each day just to reach a location in which they can labor to support their families.
Get at least one parent back into the households on a full-time basis and watch birth rates rise. You'd also see local communities flourish again rather than empty out between 8am - 6pm every day. Combine this with a ban on consumer debt and you'd have both a cultural and economic revival. Or, don't, and we can continue sending our labor to financial oligarchs and spouses can continue competing against one another to drive down their wages (as supply of labor goes up, so too does competition, and thus down goes price, which in this case is your salary). Of course any one family which opts out will be crushed as all the other families still opt-in and thus out-bid you with their usurious mortgages and drive down your salary. But financial oligarchs and global corporate tycoons love that.
It has to be done at a societal level enforced by both culture and law." - Davis Blank. Youtube comment:
- Housing is the highest cost anyone has. Buy one, even if going in debt, pay down as quick as you can a man to avoid interest. As soon as it’s paid, you are freetoemaas
- utopian0
American billionaires could fund two-thirds of Biden's COVID-19 relief package just using profits generated during the pandemic, a report shows.
The total wealth of US billionaires rose $1.3 trillion amid the pandemic, the ATF and IPS said.
This could fund two-thirds of Biden's $1.9 trillion COVID-19 rescue plan.
The momentum for measures that address wealth inequality has grown during the pandemic.
- Utopian, why is this a problem?Morning_star
- Amazing how we let these corporations get this big without paying taxes. This will literally cost us the world soon.grafician
- Yeah utopian, why is grotesque wealth concentration in a year where half a million of your citizens died and unemployment tripled a problem?i_monk
- You some sorta commi?i_monk
- i_monk, how are the wealth concentration and the current health crisis connected?Morning_star
- A ton of reasons...unemployme... businesses failings, then the trillions that are going out to support (which has only done a little to slow bankruptcies)formed
- How can anyone, for a nanosecond, not be disgusted with the wealth divide, the number of high(est) earners and corps pay pennies in taxes?formed
- Disgusted? Why should i be disgusted? I'm more disgusted by people who proselytise from the sidelines because of ill-perceived fantasy injustice.Morning_star
- Why are you fighting for the billionaires? Do you imagine they'll see your fealty and whisk you away in their blimps?i_monk
- Poverty and evictions are not fantasies. Pandemic debt that'll be repaid with austerity for everyone but the rich is not fantasy.i_monk
- Small businesses forced to close while billionaire-owned big boxes are deemed essential is not a fantasy.i_monk
- Profiteering on a crisis is not a fantasy.i_monk
- The fantasy is that it is somehow the responsibility of the wealthy to solve a public health crisis cause largely by political clowns and an ignorant populace.Morning_star
- You said 'injustice fantasy' so that's what I replied to. And I wasn't talking about the health crisis, I was talking about the economic crisis it's spawned,i_monk
- which they've profited immensely from, which they won't pay for.i_monk
- And if you think politicians aren't under the sway of these billionaires and their empty promises, you're just as ignorant as the people you look down on,i_monk
- What's the difference between the independent burger restaurant that's taken advantage of the lockdown and is doing very well delivering delicious food and...Morning_star
- ...the lockdown increase in Amazon orders?Morning_star
- My point is that there are winners and losers across the business spectrum. There are billionaires that have lost their shirts because they weren't agile...Morning_star
- ...enough to restructure their investments or business offerings and there are small business who have had to close because they lost all their custom. The...Morning_star
- ...suggestion that Covid has uniquely benefited billionaires and so they should foot the bill for the vaccine is ridiculous.Morning_star
- zaq3
Ethereum Now Races Toward Becoming The Foundation Of A New Global Financial System
- utopian0
Activision Blizzard CEO Bobby Kotick is due to receive $200 million, according to an investment group, after dozens of employees in the company suffer layoffs.
The CEO of Activision Blizzard — the company known for creating some of the most popular titles in video gaming history like Call of Duty, Diablo, Candy Crush, and World of Warcraft, and not paying any taxes in 2018 — is receiving serious scrutiny after 50 of his employees were laid off on Tuesday, Kotaku reports.
While sacked workers figure out how they will get back on their feet again during a pandemic, Bobby Kotick is set to receive a gigantic amount of money in stock bonuses to the tune of almost $200 million, according to the CtW Investment Group.
- 50 employees doesn’t seem like much for this company********
- Am Iwrong?********
- What do you do with 200 mil?********
- You blow it on NFTsNBQ00
- 50 employees doesn’t seem like much for this company
- PhanLo1
More corruption than capitalism, but I'm not starting another thread. it's pretty mental.
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- NBQ00-2
The “catch me outside” girl (also known as Bhad Babies) that gained fame when she first appeared on the Dr. Phil show just made $1M in only 1 day on OnlyFans: https://www.instagram.com/p/CNJU…
Who are those idiots paying for this crap. She didn’t even show any nudes. Wtf.
- Damn autocorrection, should be “Bhad Barbie”NBQ00
- And she has 17M+ followers on Insta. Stop making stupid people famous and rich.NBQ00
- who?drgs
- i am ashamed i know who this isrenderedred
- we live in really stupid times.utopian
- Is she at least hot?MondoMorphic
- Not in the slightestscarabin
- She didn’t show anything more than what she shows on her insta. Who are these morons making idiots rich.NBQ00
- "I wonder why she's popular?"
* posts about itGuyFawkes - NO NUDES?! OUTRAGEOUS!pango
